Flower Power Tuesday's - Double Red Hibiscus

Power means strength and force, Shakti, which enables one to face all that can happen and to stand and overcome, also to carry out what the Divine Will proposes. It can include many things, power over men, events, circumstances, means etc. But all this not of the mental or vital kind, but by an action through unity of consciousness with the Divine and with all things and all beings. It is not an individual-strength depending on certain personal capacities, but the Divine Power using the individual as an instrument.

SRI AUROBINDO

Force is the essential Shakti; Energy is the working drive of the Force, its active dynamism; Power is the capacity born of the Force; Strength is energy consolidated and stored in the Adhar.

SRI AUROBINDO

Power of Consciousness

All the powers of controlling and governing the lower movements of inconscient nature.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Double flowers in all sizes with colours that range from raspberry pink through red to crimson.

Flower Power Tuesday - Plumbago Auriculata

Krishna’s Ananda
Manifold, abundant and so full of charm.

Plumbago Auriculata
Cape leadwort - Small lavender blue flowers.

Flower Power Tuesday's - Bougainvillea

Protection

Let us Give ourselves entirely and sincerely to the Divine and we shall enjoy His protection.

When we are in close contact with the Divine, a protection can come which helps or directly guides or moves us; it does not throw aside all difficulties, sufferings or dangers, but it carries us through them and out of them - except where for a special purpose there is need of the opposite.

SRI AUROBINDO

When you think of the Lord's Peace it acts as a call, and the more you think of it the " more you surround yourself with it, which is the most powerful protection.

THE MOTHER

Flower Power Tuesday's - Jasminum

Purity 
True purity has a lovely fragrance. 

This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.

THE MOTHER

One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully and exclusively to the Divine Will. That is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the Divine Will.

THE MOTHER

Jasminum - Jasmine
All varieties of small single white flowers with a slender tube and four to nine pointed or rounded lobes. The flowers are typically highly fragrant. Shrubs or vines. 

Flower Power Tuesday's - Amaryllis

Conversion :The starting point of realisation.

Conversion: the turning of all the movements of the being towards the Divine

THE MOTHER

When [the psychic being] is awake, it begins to take hold of the rest of the being, to influence it and change it so that all may become the true expression of the inner soul. It is this change that is called the inner conversion. There can be no conversion without the awakening of the psychic being.

SRI AUROBINDO

Hippeastrum
Amaryllis, Knight's star lily, Barbados lily
Large trumpet shaped flowers with six petals in shades of white, red, pink, orange, salmon.

Amaryllis have long vase life. They stay fresh in a vase with water for close to a week. 

Flower Power Tuesday's - Fuchsia

Fuchsia flower(Lady's ear drops) is used for representing Art by Sri Aurobindo.

Art

Living only to express beauty. 

Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation.

SRI AUROBINDO

If you want art to be the true and highest art, it must be the expression of a divine world brought down into this material world.

SRI AUROBINDO

Flower Power Tuesday's - Lotus

Avatar

An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.

THE MOTHER

The word Avatara means a descent; it is a coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.

SRI AUROBINDO

Avatar - the Supreme Manifested in a Body upon Earth

The pink lotus is the flower of Sri Aurobindo. Nelumbo nucifera, Sacred lotus, East Indian lotus.

Flower Power Tuesday's - Madagascar periwinkle

Progress :

Progress is  represented by Madagascar Periwinkle(Vinca)

Give up all personal seeking for comfort, satisfaction, enjoyment or happiness. Be only a burning fire for progress, take whatever comes to you as an aid to your progress and immediately make whatever progress is required.

THE MOTHER

It is especially the will for progress and self-purification that lights the fire. The will for progress. When those who have a strong will turn it towards spiritual progress and purification, they automatically light the fire within themselves.

THE MOTHER

Progress 
This is why we are on earth.

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